Definitions for qualify
ˈkwɒl əˌfaɪqual·i·fy

Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. qualify, measure upverb

   prove capable or fit; meet requirements

2. qualifyverb

   pronounce fit or able

   "She was qualified to run the marathon"; "They nurses were qualified to administer the injections"

3. qualify, restrictverb

   make more specific

   "qualify these remarks"

4. qualify, disposeverb

   make fit or prepared

   "Your education qualifies you for this job"

5. stipulate, qualify, condition, specifyverb

   specify as a condition or requirement in a contract or agreement; make an express demand or provision in an agreement

   "The will stipulates that she can live in the house for the rest of her life"; "The contract stipulates the dates of the payments"

6. qualify, characterize, characteriseverb

   describe or portray the character or the qualities or peculiarities of

   "You can characterize his behavior as that of an egotist"; "This poem can be characterized as a lament for a dead lover"

7. modify, qualifyverb

   add a modifier to a constituent

WiktionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. qualifynoun

   An instance of throwing and catching each prop at least twice.

2. qualifyverb

   To describe or characterize something by listing its qualities.

3. qualifyverb

   To make someone, or to become competent or eligible for some position or task.

4. qualifyverb

   To certify or license someone for something.

5. qualifyverb

   To modify, limit, restrict or moderate something; especially to add conditions or requirements for an assertion to be true.

6. qualifyverb

   To mitigate, alleviate (something); to make less disagreeable.

7. qualifyverb

   To compete successfully in some stage of a competition and become eligible for the next stage

8. qualifyverb

   To throw and catch each object at least twice.

Samuel Johnson's DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. To QUALIFYverb

   Etymology: qualifier, Fr.

   1. To fit for any thing.

   Place over them such governors, as may be qualified in such manner as may govern the place. Francis Bacon, Advice to Villiers.

   I bequeath to Mr. John Whiteway the sum of one hundred pounds, in order to qualify him for a surgeon. Jonathan Swift, Will.

   2. To furnish with qualifications; to accomplish.

   That which ordinary men are fit for, I am qualified in; and the best of me is diligence. William Shakespeare, King Lear.

   She is of good esteem,
   Her dowry wealthy, and of worthy birth,
   Beside so qualified, as may beseem
   The spouse of any noble gentleman. William Shakespeare.

   3. To make capable of any employment or privilege.4. To abate; to soften; to diminish.

   I have heard,
   Your grace hath ta’en great pains to qualify
   His rig’rous course. William Shakespeare, Merchant of Venice.

   I do not seek to quench your love’s hot fire,
   But qualify the fire’s extreme rage,
   Lest it should burn above the bounds of reason. William Shakespeare.

   I have drunk but one cup to-night, and that was craftily qualified too; and behold what innovation it makes here. Sha.

   They would report that they had records for twenty thousand years, which must needs be a very great untruth, unless we will qualify it, expounding their years not of the revolution of the sun, but of the moon. George Abbot.

   It hath so pleased God to provide for all living creatures, wherewith he hath filled the world, that such inconveniences, as we contemplate afar off, are found, by trial and the witness of men’s travels, to be so qualified, as there is no portion of the earth made in vain. Walter Raleigh, Hist. of the World.

   So happy ’tis you move in such a sphere,
   As your high majesty with awful fear
   In human breasts might qualify that fire,
   Which kindled by those eyes had flamed higher. Edmund Waller.

   Children should be early instructed in the true estimate of things, by opposing the good to the evil, and compensating or qualifying one thing with another. Roger L'Estrange.

   My proposition I have qualified with the word, often; thereby making allowance for those cases, wherein men of excellent minds may, by a long practice of virtue, have renered even the heights and rigours of it delightful. Francis Atterbury.

   5. To ease; to assuage.

   He balms and herbs therto apply’d,
   And evermore with mighty spells them charm’d,
   That in short space he has them qualify’d,
   And him restor’d to health, that would have dy’d. Edmund Spenser.

   6. To modify; to regulate.

   It hath no larinx or throttle to qualify the sound. Brown.

Webster DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Qualifyverb

   to make such as is required; to give added or requisite qualities to; to fit, as for a place, office, occupation, or character; to furnish with the knowledge, skill, or other accomplishment necessary for a purpose; to make capable, as of an employment or privilege; to supply with legal power or capacity

2. Qualifyverb

   to give individual quality to; to modulate; to vary; to regulate

3. Qualifyverb

   to reduce from a general, undefined, or comprehensive form, to particular or restricted form; to modify; to limit; to restrict; to restrain; as, to qualify a statement, claim, or proposition

4. Qualifyverb

   hence, to soften; to abate; to diminish; to assuage; to reduce the strength of, as liquors

5. Qualifyverb

   to soothe; to cure; -- said of persons

6. Qualifyverb

   to be or become qualified; to be fit, as for an office or employment

7. Qualifyverb

   to obtain legal power or capacity by taking the oath, or complying with the forms required, on assuming an office

Chambers 20th Century DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Qualify

   kwol′i-fī, v.t. to render capable or suitable: to furnish with legal power: to limit by modifications: to soften: to abate: to reduce the strength of: to vary: (Scots law) to prove, confirm.—v.i. to take the necessary steps to fit one's self for a certain position.—adj. Qual′ifiable.—ns. Qualificā′tion, that which qualifies: a quality that fits a person for a place, &c.: (logic) the attaching of quality, or the distinction of affirmative and negative, to a term: abatement: (Shak.) pacification; Qual′ificātive, that which qualifies, modifies, or restricts: a qualifying term or statement; Qual′ificātor (R.C.), one who prepares ecclesiastical causes for trial.—adj. Qual′ificātory.—p.adj. Qual′ified, fitted: competent: modified: limited.—adv. Qual′ifiedly.—ns. Qual′ifiedness; Qual′ifier.—adj. Qual′ifying.—Property qualification, the holding of a certain amount of property as a condition to the right of suffrage, &c. [Fr.,—Low L. qualificāre—L. qualis, of what sort, facĕre, to make.]

Editors ContributionRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. qualify

   The capacity and ability to act and do and have the accurate and specific proof of that ability.

   She did qualify for the Director job and achieved so much.

   
   

   Submitted by MaryC on February 9, 2020  

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British National Corpus

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   Rank popularity for the word 'qualify' in Verbs Frequency: #568

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of qualify in Chaldean Numerology is: 3

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of qualify in Pythagorean Numerology is: 1

Examples of qualify in a Sentence

1. John Whitbeck:

   I think actually if you can qualify for the Virginia ballot it means that you have a pretty solid operation to begin with, it's not the only thing you need to be able to do obviously to win, but I think it is a symbol of a really good ground game.

2. Tyrone Dennis:

   It would be foolish for me to stay for $ 48,000. When I have a wife and three kids to feed for $ 48,000. I can almost qualify for public assistance. That's not cool.

3. Georgios Printezis:

   It felt like a final but we still have to win one more game in order to qualify, barcelona are very dangerous and we have to forget this victory straight away in order to start focusing on the next game.

4. Mickey Mehta:

   Teachers teach, preachers preach, but masters communicate all with their being.Students qualify and earn, disciples follow and learn, but devotees simply absorb in their compassionate seeing. Be a devotee, evolve and be liberalized , get MickeyMized.

5. Nabilah Islam:

   I'm running for Congress full time and I can't afford private health insurance and I don't even qualify for Medicaid in Georgia, so, I don't feel safe knocking on doors Nabilah Islam.

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References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=qualify
2. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Qualify
3. ^ Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
   https://johnsonsdictionaryonline.com/views/search.php?term=qualify
4. ^ Webster Dictionary
   https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/qualify
5. ^ Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
   https://www.gutenberg.org/files/37683/37683-h/37683-h.htm#:~:text=qualify